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Volunteers in Pharmaceutical Research, Inc. 776-1417 ANNUAL SPRING HALF PRICE 1—^ On All 1 4K & 1 8K & Diamond Jewelry Thursday, April 29,1993 The Battalion Page 10 Concealed handgun bill waste of time, Bullock says THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — A bill that would allow Texans to car ry concealed handguns if approved by voters was snot down Wednesday by Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock. Bullock said the Senate would not consider the House-app roved ippr handgun bill be cause of Gov. Ann Richards' promise to veto the legisla tion, and because of the numerous other issues before the Legislature. ed to carry handgun legislation in the Senate, said he wasn't disturbed by the Senate's decision. "I'm certainly not going to waste this body's time on an issue that ultimately for all practical purposes is a dead issue," he said. In vowing to veto the bill if it reached her desk, Richards said it "I'm certainly not going to waste this body's time on an issue that ultimately for all practical purposes is a dead issue." - Sen. Ken Armbrister, D-Victoria "She said she's going to veto it, and that's good enough for me, and that was good enough for mem bers of the Texas Senate," Bullock said after he met with senators behind closed doors for about 40 min utes. "And if any blame is to be placed, they can blame it on me. My name is Bullock," he said. As a personal favor, Bullock said he asked sena tors not to waste time in the final month of the leg islative session debating the measure. "Our major issue here in Austin is schools, it is the state budget. It would be a waste of our time" to consider the gun bill, Bullock said. Sen. Ken Armbrister, D-Victoria, who was expect- would spark more violence. She commended Bullock for stop ping the bill at the Senate door. "I think he un derstands that we've got serious problems in this state and the Legislature needs to address them," Richards said. "The fact that we have spent this much time on this issue is simply amazing to me with all the work we have to do." As adopted by the House, the bill would allow Texans 21 and over to apply for a license to carry a gun. A provision added to the measure calls for it to be approved by voters before going into effect. The measure's supporters in the House said they had enough votes in the House and Senate to over ride a veto by Richards. It takes a two-thirds vote of the 150-member House and 31-member Senate to override a guberna torial veto. Court reverses death sentence THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN — The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday re versed the death sentence of a member of a prison gang convict ed of killing a fellow inmate in 1988 to improve his ranking in the gang. Texas Syndicate gang member Noe Beltran was sentenced to die for stabbing inmate Ramon Gomez in the Ellis One Unit at Huntsville on July 18,1988. The Court of Criminal Appeals, however, reversed the conviction and ordered the case back to the trial court with instructions for ac quittal. The court's ruling Wednesday marks the fourth reversal of death sentences for members of the white prison gang Texas Mafia and the mostly Hispanic Texas Syndicate. Texas Mafia members Mark Fronckiewicz and Tony Rice, as well as Texas Syndicate member Gilbert Urbano have had death sentences reversed recently. At the heart of the capital mur der convictions was evidence pre sented by the state that both gangs had standing promises to reward members who killed other inmates. Those rewards included money, drugs or improved rank in the gang, according to court testimony. Killing for remuneration is punishable by death. The gang has long been ac cused or organized crime inside and outside the prison, including drug running and prostitution. In Beltran's case, the prosecu tion's evidence included testimo ny from former prison gang mem bers that Beltran would be made the gang's chairman of the Ellis One Unit if he killed Gomez. But the Court of Criminal Ap peals ruled Wednesday that the state's "evidence fails to establish that a Syndicate member would necessarily receive any tangible benefit upon the death of some one else." The court's action Wednesday marked the second time Beltran has had a capital murder convic tion thrown out. In 1987, the Court of Criminal Appeals said there was not sufficient evidence to show Beltran would be a dan ger to society after being sen tenced to death for robbing and shooting a Brownsville woman who ran a tortilla factory. His sentence in that case was reduced to life. Reno: No choice in Waco outcome THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Attorney General Janet Reno said Wednesday she considered every option to end the Waco standoff, even tunneling into the Branch Davidian compound, but the failed tear-gas attack seemed to be the only viable plan. "Nobody will ever know what the right answer was,"Reno told a congressional committee looking into the disaster. Before the assault, she said she repeatedly asked the experts: "Why now? Why not wait?" And every day since, she said, she has wondered what she might have done differently. Reno was the first witness before the House Judi ciary Committee in a sometimes confrontational day of second-guessing about the operation that ended after 51 days in flames and the deaths of David Kore- sh, his followers and their children. She emotionally recalled a call from President Clinton after her final television appearance that night. "I don't think I've ever been so — I guess lonely is the word," she said. "It was 12:20 at night. "The first call I got was from my sister," she said, her normally strong voice lost in her throat. "She said 'That-a-girl.' The second call I got was from the president of the United States, saying, 'That-a-girl.'" Reno received similar back-patting from most of the committee, but harsh criticism nrom Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. $25 million Lotto causes sales to soar THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTIN - With $25 mil lion up for grabs in Wednes day night's Lotto Texas draw ing, Texans were buying tick ets at a record-setting pace. "Lotto fever is heating up, based upon preliminary sales figures this week, and shows every indication of soaring to new record-breaking levels," state Comptroller John Sharp said just hours before the drawing. Sharp, whose office over sees the game, said that lotto sales were running at $7,000 a minute, or $400,000 an hour, Wednesday morning. He said" lottery officials ex pected sales to hit $1 million an hour before the day ended - and possibly as much as $2 million an hour before the cut off at 9:45 p.m. He said that sales on Mon day topped $1.5 million and on Tuesday totaled $3.8 million. The lottery prize was the largest offered since Nov. 28, 1992, when Janie Kallusoi Schulenburg became the first Lotto Texas winner and claimed $21.7 million. No one correctly picked the six winning numbers since April 14, when Willie Mae Smith of Houston won $8 mil lion. With no winners in the twice-weekly drawings, the jackpot continued to multiply. The comptroller said lotto sales outlets were experiencing booming business. "Lotto Texas players aren't the only ones stocking up on tickets," Sharp said. "Since early this week, our more than 8,000 lotto retailers across the state have been stocking up on game supplies — play slips and ticket stock, I ( A Up: Some retailers have even made plans to schedule extra staff to accommodate the increase in player traffic," he said. Andy Welch, a spokesman for the comptroller's office, said officials were advising Texans not to wait until the last minute to buy tickets. * "There will be people who have never before played lotto who will buy tickets ... They; won't be as familiar with the process, so it may take them longer to fill out play slips and make the transaction," he said, his Although the $25 million jackpot was a Texas record,!! fell well short of California's record-breaking $118.8 million prize in April 1991. That po! was split among 10 winners. The second-largest jackpoi in U.S. history was in Pennsyl vania in 1989, when 14 won $115.5 million. 1 gra. tial Pre 'in C pac can Clir dov $4 b aro imp Clir able witl s not wi his San Antonio to face limit on aquifer pumping THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — The water war over the Edwards Aquifer may be nearing a ceasefire now that several parties in the dispute have reached a compromise that would limit aquifer pumping. "I believe this is a compromise we can live with. I believe we have held to our principles," San Antonio Mayor Nelson Wolff was quoted as saying in Wednesday's San Antonio Ex press-News. State Sen. Ken Armbrister, D-Victoria, ham mered out the agreement early Tuesday after marathon bargaining sessions in Austin, the Express-News reported. Armbrister said he hoped to have the pro posed legislation ready for final review by in terested parties by the end of the week. Lawmakers are under a May 31 deadline to enact aquifer pumping limits or face possible cuts in federal funds. State Rep. Robert Puente, D-San Antonio, a House sponsor of the measure, said the tenta tive Senate agreement marks a "steady pro gression of compromises that we need to get tor an effective bill to come out of the Legisla ture." In addition to enforcing aquifer pumping P 1 limits, the plan would distribute water right . and create a new authority to meter wells an: ^ tr collect fees. ini Armbrister and the group he was working with drafted a bill that would create a new Ed' wards Aquifer Authority and abolish the exist' bne ing Edwards Underground Water District anl [he \ its property tax. 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Fort Bend County Court-at- Law Judge Walter McMeans re fused Tuesday to dismiss an abuse-of-a-corpse charge against mortuary owner Newell Evans and set a June 30 trial date. Evans is accused of dumping cancer victim George Bojarski's body at his Richmond apartment after a dispute over a $683 crema tion fee with the man's son. Evans' attorney, Walter Pink said his client committed no crime. "I'm sure that if you put 30 or 40 morticians on that stand and gave them the same fact scenario. they would be split as to whi they would do — businesswise, Pink told the judge Tuesday. But Assistant District Attorne; Anu Shah said Evans' actions Oct 12 violated a Texas statute andtl* misdemeanor complaint against him sets out in detail how ki's corpse was abused. In a graphic affidavit attache* to court documents, Evans, 61,is accused of leaving the dead mans sheet-covered nude body lyingo« a board outside the apartment where he had lived and where te son, Larry Bojarski, was staying, The corpse was unshaven, ti mouth and one eye were ope! and there was an incision on leg, according to court papers. Assistant District Attorne) ther; Mike Elliot described the crimes! doon "obnoxious, it's insulting, it's* the n moral disgrace." "E the < svvei face At tl spe e he!) some et." Pleas Was [ n 8 Piodf fills. Lc thesi Shou entifj